(12-06-2010 12:41 )Wazo Wrote: I doubt its a Management thing as Jamie once describe her as like family to him as i say we all dont know why she is off at the moment apart from that she is ill being ill doesn't just mean being sick it could mean somones had a operation or broken a bone or somthing like that so in my eyes when people reply saying you cant be ill for three weeks think about it the things i listed above would take longer for you to come back an you would be classed as ill as you recovered from them.
It's not about the current illness though I'm sure Elite would be quite happy to keep everyone informed if it was due to a broken bone. Plus she was scheduled for last week which she wouldn't have been with something like that.
The situation with Dionne has been this. When Elite first started she generally did 4 nights a week. That included a lot of Friday's and Saturday's which are seen as the flagship nights. There was lots of content from her added onto the Elite site and her own personal website was near enough the first one they tried to launch. A lot of the onscreen pictures featured her
Around September/October last year though something seemed to have changed. The number of nights she was doing were reduced and she wasn't doing many weekends. Content for the Elite website started to dry up and her own website stalled.
We then had the prolonged absence from end of November till March. Since she's come back from that, she's generally been scheduled for only 2 nights a week, has often been pulled from the schedule very late in the day and now we have the latest absence. We haven't had any new pictures or videos, she has done only 1 or 2 Fridays from memory (the night of her reappearance being one) and her website seems to be dead in the water. Whilst in the early days she was at the forefront of everything (2 for 1's, spotlight strips etc) she almost never gets involved in anything like that now.
Dionne may be like family to Jamie but at the end of the day it's a business. Believe me, he wouldn't hold back from taking tough decisions if it was best for the business as a whole.
Whilst I'm not saying that's the case, there is no doubt that there has been a huge change of direction when it comes to Dionne.
It's a shame because as you know, I'm a massive fan but the past 9 months or so have been hugely frustrating for those who like her.